I learned a murmuration is a flock of starlings whirling and turning in the sky, changing directions in a second, flying back again, blackening
The cur dog tethered to a stake across the road runs back and forth barking all day
If the greatest of these is charit… then tell me again why it’s gauche if this young man in a booth at a bar
It took awhile to find Osama. It will take awhile to find the Briton with his knife in the desert of Iraq. They may bring him back
It’s war plain and simple when I fill the feeder out in the sycamore with millet and niger
Harvey has a special room in the basement that’s always lock… He keeps a safe there, some antiqu… and family memorabilia he fears midnight thieves might steal.
Paul’s not a veteran of Vietnam but he goes there in his dreams to watch his brother Tim walk in hazy streams sprayed with Agent Orange before he
After World War II before television, before women had tattoos before men wore earrings, I was a child in a world
Books covered in dust are stacked from floor to ceiling. Screens light up the house. Donal Mahoney
Thunder and lightning at first, as I understand it, and then the moon will split in half and disappear and the stars will go dark
We’re twins. We’ve been together from the start. You’re the doctor. You know that.
Three are known by name, Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael, but there are a zillion angels, pure spirits who have no wings like those we draw on Cherubim,
She was old already when you had her in 8th grade and she said you should sit in the first seat third row right in front of her for
The Nazis call her Hilda, this ancient woman who makes a simple living in a bathroom in Berlin giving high colonics
This Monarch butterfly dances from petal to petal red, yellow and orange sits for a while on each and then